Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore (MGM Medical College) is one of the oldest and most prestigious government run medical colleges in India and the best in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the 15th oldest medical college in the country, established in 1948.

Indore was once the centre of health care in western India. India's first medical institution, King Edward Medical School, was established here as early as 1848. The hospital is named after Yashwantrao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore, the last Holkar ruler. When it was inaugurated in 1955, it was Asia's largest government hospital and largest hospital till date in central India.

It is the first govt. hospital to be computerised. Its first dean was Dr. Bose, who was the head of department of pharmacology.

M. Y. Hospital has 1200 beds with all the major medical departments: surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, dermatology, chest and TB, orthopaedics, E.N.T., ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, forensic medicine, and casualty, cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology divisions are under parent medicine department. Medicine dept. has 18 bedded MICU, 8 bedded ICCU, 5 hemodialysis machines, endoscopy unit, ventilators, etc. There are SICU, NICU, PICU, burn units, and surgical superspeciality units in M Y Hospital.

This eight-storied govt. hospital is surrounded by a group of hospitals in MYH campus: 300-bedded Chacha Nehru Children hospitals, 100-bedded M.R. TB hospital, 100-bedded cancer hospital. The old KEM school is on this campus. This hospital has Mahatma Gandhi memorial medical college associated with it. It has a mental hospital associated with it which is in Badganga, Indore. This hospital gives special privilege to poor under a central government aided scheme.

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